Reading is un-natural to children yet necessary for active participation in modern culture and society. Discuss It is natural for people to become accustomed to what their society surrounds them with, in short, we are a product of our society and we consume what it provides us with. As human beings we are innately sociable creatures, so one could argue that society today is natural to what human evolution has made it. However, many psychologists, …
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